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Research tracks 66 million years of mammalian diversity

July 17, 2024

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The Syndyoceras existed for 4.2 million years during the Cenozoic era on the North American continent. This skeletal display can be found in the University of Nebraska State Museum–Morill Hall.

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Schrödinger’s mammoth – ecological assembly in the age of humans

18 April 2024

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Cool Thinking Forum with Metta Spencer

Discussion about climate change and artic megafauna with Metta Spencer and Alessandro Mereghetti

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Why giant prehistoric animals got smaller

Interview with BBC reporters about why animals are the size they are.

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Island-inhabiting giants, dwarves more vulnerable to extinction

19 March 2023

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image of an island in the shape of a footprint with mammal shapes as the toes

Extinctions of massive mammals leave ‘missing pieces’ in ecosystems

25 September 2022

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a glyptodont is looking at the camera

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Early hunting, farming homogenized mammal communities of North America

27 July 2022

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Kate Lyons standing in front of Archie

Humans disrupting 66 million-year-old feature of ecosystems

21 April 2022

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images of mammals of different sizes

Offspring of T. rex, mega-dinos took food from mouths of modest-sized species

25 February 2021

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Kate Lyons eyeing an Allosaurus

Division by subtraction: Extinction of large mammal species likely drove survivors apart

19 September 2019

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Columbian Mammoth named Archie from Morrill Hall

Unprecedented wave of large-mammal extinctions linked to ancient humans

19 April 2018

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Mammoth from the Smithsonian

Scientists say that 6,000 years ago, humans dramatically changed how nature works

16 December 2015

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Photo of the paleo collections at the Smithsonian

Other News Coverage

A Mystery That Took 13,200 Years to Crack

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/06/mastodon-mammoth-extinction-climate-change/661351/

Jaw of Extinct Lion Found Along Drought-Stricken Mississippi River

https://gizmodo.com/american-lion-jaw-fossil-mississippi-river-1849796612

Ancient American Lion Tooth Discovered on Dried Up Mississippi River Bank

https://www.newsweek.com/newsweek-com-ancient-american-lion-tooth-discovered-dried-mississippi-river-bank-1758869

Deadly one-two punch may have driven the woolly rhino to extinction

https://www.science.org/content/article/deadly-one-two-punch-may-have-driven-woolly-rhino-extinction

Biologist Kate Lyons looks to the fossil record of elephants and mammoths to predict the future of today's large mammal communities

https://mediahub.unl.edu/media/15886